Improvement in cigar-boxes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEOPOLD KAUFMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CIGAR-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,719, dated January29, 1878 application filed December 4, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, LEoPoLn KAUFMANN, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cigar-Boxes,of which the following is a specification This invention relates to anew cigar-box, which is, by a partition, dividedinto two compartments,and provided with a separate lid for each of the compartments, the twolids being so applied to the partition and provided withfastening-catches that they can be held open in a vertical position,each lid supporting the other, or closed and held down in suitablemanner.

In the accompanying drawings similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts.

Figure 1 represents a front view of my cigarbox, showing it closed. Fig.2 is a plan or top view of the same, showing both lids opened; Fig. 3, avertical transverse sectional view of the same, showing both lidsopened; Fig. 4, a front view of the same, showing one lid open.

A represents the body of the cigar-box, the same being of rectangular orother suitable form. This box is, by a partition, B, divided into twocompartments, a b. For each of these compartments there is a separatelid, both lids G D being hinged to the upper part of the partition B, sothat the lid 0 can close the compartment to, and the lid D can close 7the compartment 12. When the box is closed these lids reach to therespective faces of the box, and the dealer or purchaser may open thatone of the compartments from which he intends to take a cigar, and leavethe other, meanwhile, properly closed and undisturbed; but when thecigars are exposed for sale the two lids are preferably opened, as inFig. 3, and raised vertically above the partition, so

that one leans against the other. In this position the two lids aremaintained by the L- shaped catches d, with which they are provided atthe upper ends, there being one such catch at one end of thelid G, andanother such catch at the diagonally-opposite end of the lid D, asclearly shown.in Fig. 2. The catches are used to lap or extend from thelids to which they are respectively applied around the adjoining lid, inthe manner shown in Fig. 2, and thus to hold the two lids verticallyupright. The same catches may also be used when the box is temporarilyto be closed to enter notches in the face of the box, as in Fig. 1, andthus to hold the lids closed down over the box.

Dealers in cigars will find these self-supporting lids of advantage,because the same disclose the labels or trade-marks that are usuallyapplied to the inner sides of the covers of cigar-boxes to bestadvantage, and enable the purchaser to know at a glance the brand ofcigars with which he is served. 7

Another advantage of this cigar-box is, that the cover, when foldedopen, will not occupy any space at the back of the box, and thusactually double the room occupied by the body of the box, as is the casewith the old common cigar-boxes.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the cigar-box A with the partition B, two lids, O D,and with the catches d on said lids, all arranged so that said lids willsupport each other and hold each other by their catches in verticalposition, substantially as specified.

LEOPOLD KAUFMANN.

Witnesses:

T. B. MosHER, F. v. BRIESEN.

